Now the Shadow City, as long as you look up at the sky, you will find that above the extremely high clouds in the sky, there is a spectacular and mysterious arc-shaped land, this earth hangs high above the Shadow City, which has expanded to the point that it can no longer be described by the word city, extending in all directions to the limit of your vision, and the slight arc that bulges slightly under the middle makes people vaguely aware that this land is actually part of a certain sphere, but its size and grandeur make it impossible to see its full picture.

The earth of the sky is covered with a layer of silvery and emerald green sè, the silvery white sè, which is the alloy cast city, and the emerald green sè, which is the lush jungle with lush plants.

It's as if it's reflected in the sky in another world.

This wonder in the sky is the most talked about topic among the residents of Shadow City in the past two days, its grandeur, mystery and magnificence have made it more eyeballs than the air fortress of the Military Command, many people are speculating about the origin of the reflection world, and many people are busy spreading various versions of the truth because they are well-informed or know some inside stories, but in fact, there is only one truth, and it is extremely simple: it is the capital planet of the new empire, the mother planet Gaia.

Well, I know that the original name of this home planet was not Gaia, but considering that the planet has now become the temporary body of some Phantom Girl, I decided to name it Gaia.

The cosmic reconstruction of the original Kpru region has been completed, and even the post-adjustment work has been completed, and Gaia and the mother star she controls will naturally have no mission in that galaxy, and after discussing it with Sandora, I decided to transfer this planet to shadow space - and this was a few days ago, when we were still busy with war in the Mobrado universe, and I signed the order for the transfer of this capital star in my spare time, when we returned triumphantly, Gaia Star has been hanging on the ground for two and a half days in the sky above Shadow City.

Although the order was signed quickly in the middle of a tense battle, the idea was not too hasty.

After a long period of construction, the shadow space has become the safest place in the territory of the new empire, all of our top command centers are concentrated in this artificial universe, and the headquarters and space-time administration are also here, and on the other hand, the home planet, which was supposed to be the ruling center of the empire, has been busy with infrastructure construction and demolition and resettlement in the celestial region of a subsidiary civilization, which is a bit awkward anyway, and the work of relocating the home planet should have been on the agenda a long time ago, and it is actually a bit delayed to complete this matter now.

I have to say that the impact caused by the hanging of another world in the sky is very great, especially for some people with repressive phobia, looking up at the sky and a continent hanging head-down is definitely not a comfortable thing, when Gaia was just transferred, the psychotherapy industry in Shadow City prospered greatly for two days, and the income growth rate of the psychiatrist was almost the same as the growth rate of the ideas in the shallow head, and Gaia had to turn on the mirror system of the home star itself. The scene of the home planet continent projected into the sky above the Shadow City has been visually weakened to solve this psychological panic, so now when we see the heavenly continent, we will feel that it is just a somewhat ethereal picture, and we will not think that Mount Tai is about to be overpowered. And when it comes to the parent star hanging in the sky, it is actually not right, considering the huge difference in volume between the parent star and the shadow city, this statement should be reversed: the current shadow city is hanging upside down in the northern hemisphere of the home star. Although it is only a matter of argument, Gaia seems to care about it, and she insists that Shadow City should be regarded as an artificial satellite of the home planet and not the other way around, which I can only explain that Gaia has been with the planet for too long, and she has almost thought of herself as a planet - just like Avena was so kind when she saw the crow recently......

After Sandora mentioned that the vengeful army spirit Hún couldn't merge with any kind of body, I just looked up at the sky, which is also an important reason why our mortal-level IQ turns faster than Sandora, and I immediately thought of a person whose symptoms are exactly the same as those ancient spirits, and that is Gaia.

The same conceptual loss of body, the same inability to use any type of apostle shell, the same can only be stored in the form of data in the large array machine, and more importantly, Gaia also said that her current appearance is caused by a test disaster.

Although she never explicitly said anything about the test disaster, I can almost certainly be referring to the test disaster that Sandora had just said and that L-15 had brought up that inspired the Avengers. Those revenge armies copied the spirit hún rewriting method that caused Gaia's situation, thus completely destroying the spirit network of the Xiling in their heavenly region back then.

Gaia has the advantage of moving her home planet to shadow space, that is, we can go over and see her at any time, of course, what we see is only a light blue sè phantom, but compared to holographic images, the feeling of being able to chat with Gaia on the home planet is still different.

The military passage in the Dimensional Hub Plaza has a portal that leads directly to the control hub of the home planet, and Sandora and I quickly reached our destination through this door.

"The first time I came here, I was sleepwalking."

Looking at the familiar and novel steel city around me, and the lush jungle in the distance, I smiled and said to Sandora.

This magnificent city is the control hub of the home planet, and while it looks like a futuristic bustling city, it is actually an unmanned, self-disciplined "building complex" rather than a place to live. It is called the home star control hub, as the name suggests, one of the functions here is the dispatch center of the entire planet, and most of the dazzling alloy buildings around it are various computing and processing facilities, and the elevated roads and bridges that seem to be three-dimensional transportation networks are the protective slots of various connecting cables, and Gaia's "information" is constantly passing through these buildings and cables, so strictly speaking, this control hub is Gaia's "itself".

Due to her own ultra-high computing power, or comprehensive energy, this particular home star has a fully autonomous control hub, which I only recently learned. Originally, I thought that all the emperors' home planet control hubs were uninhabited cities, but when I talked to Sandora, I realized that my own was a special case: Sandora's home planet hub was much more lively than here, while Gaia's hub only had a small number of regular garrisons, and the rest were self-discipline machines under her direct control.

This control hub is so huge, it is completely different from the small and powerful processing equipment of the empire (such as the Xiling host), this is because in the old imperial era, it not only had to manage a planet, but also countless worlds at the same time, and a huge computing facility like a city is not large, but now, 80% of the functions of this hub are in a state of shutdown, and if you look around, you will find that although all the silver and white buildings are floating with blue sè energy lines, However, there are only a few buildings that really have regular flickering lights, and a small part of these buildings are the adjustment devices of the mother star itself - you can see how idle Gaia usually is.

As soon as Sandora and I arrived at the control hub, we immediately caught Gaia's attention, and a small group of autonomic machines floating in the air like octopuses muttered their common language, leading us to a small square not far away, where Gaia was waiting for us, surrounded by a large circle of autonomic machines crawling around - it seemed that this was the scene of her life on Jupiter when she was bored.

We had already explained our purpose when we teleported, so Gaia didn't ask much when she saw us, but nodded knowingly.

"About my current situation," the translucent image of the pale blue sè in front of him reached out and gently stroked a self-discipline machine that was swimming around beside him, the latter seemed to feel it, and made a comfortable gurgling sound, and then flipped over, octopus-like multi-use mechanical arm in the air to open into a projection array, and then turned on a hologram of about a meter or more, "This is the structure of the home planet, and the two Majesties should be no strangers." ”

Sandora and I nodded.

"This location is the control center, the largest 'city' on the home planet, in fact, it is a servo array, and the port where I interact with the outside world is on this array, and it is also the storage area of 90% of my information." Gaia said unhurriedly, and many of the autonomic machines under her control were also like the first one, belly up around us, unfolding many holograms.

My eyes widened and I watched in amazement at these never-before-seen images: they were like a documentary!

A dozen video footage was playing around us, but what was shown was not the numbers and charts I was used to on these Xiling devices, it was the same thing as many live videos, and there were many intricate and unclear technical symbols, but it was easier for me to understand. There were busy dispatch centers, hordes of Imperial technicians hurrying through, reactors cracking with glare sparks, and a steady stream of ships, but none of these were things that stunned me, and what really made it difficult to calm down at a glance was the familiar faces that appeared in several images for a long time.

Pandora, who was standing on the podium with a blank face, Alay, who was smiling gently but obviously slipping away, and Gaia, who was standing in a crystal prism with a calm expression, surrounded by halos - not the phantom appearance of the light blue sè now, but a real girl with beautiful long hair with a light purple sè, bright eyes with the same light purple sè, and a white sè dress.

In addition to them, there were also some familiar looking faces that flashed by, but after the faces of the three Pandoras appeared on the screen, my attention was not focused on the others. Sandora looked at the videos that were playing on a loop around her for a long time before she said, "This is a video from the old empire, right?" ”

Gaia nodded, "Yes, this is the footage left behind when I was working on a research project, and I lost my body after that research project failed. ”

Sandora and I had already guessed, but our eyes were wide open.

Gaia recounted what happened back then, and this was the first time I heard the whole story from her: "Gaia, the full name is the Distributed Array Xiling Host Parent Machine-Gaia Type, I used to be the last parent machine of the old Imperial Distributed Array Xiling Host, as recorded on the video, I used to be the same as Bubbles......"

As soon as he opened his mouth, it was heavy news.

But Gaia didn't give me much time to digest this information, because obviously all she was going to say next was a bombshell, and if I digested them one by one, I was afraid that I would have to digest them until next month, so she continued without pause: "There are many different models of Xiling hosts, such as bubbles, and the special name should be 'Hive Collaborative Xiling Host', but these should not be your concerns." Gaia tactfully pointed out my lack of understanding.

"The Gaia-type Xiling is the last model of the distributed array mainframe, and I am the prototype of it, and the only Xiling mainframe that was finally put into use, for a complicated reason, in short, in the end, Gaia changed from a series code name to my proprietary name. And that test was part of a scientific research project that was being carried out at that time. ”

"At that time, the empire was at the end of the era of great expansion, and the Xiling Apostle gradually reduced the conquest war of the New Epoch realm, and turned to concentrate on the study of techniques to further strengthen their own civilization, and the further study of their own spirit hún was one of the many research projects at that time, as one of the most powerful Xiling hosts at that time, I served as the operator mother node in the heavenly region, and at the same time, I was also the first test object to be transformed, because of the special life form of the Xiling host, our spirit hún is more able to tolerate all kinds of transformations, And the self-healing ability is very strong, plus I am a Xiling host, I can record first-hand data better than other subjects......"

And then ...... Failed the test? ”

I asked cautiously.

Gaia nodded silently, and a four-legged automaton floated over with a holographic projection on its belly, and the projection appeared some very messy images, as if it had been greatly disturbed during the shooting, the broken crystal prism on the picture, the console slot that kept flashing alarm lights, the girl who was gradually dissipating into points of light, and Pandora, who was pinning a group of researchers to the ground and preparing to shoot them one by one, was stopped by Alaye, who had been looking dull back then.

"You usually look at these things?" I looked at Gaia and the automatic machine that was playing the scene of the disaster with a strange expression, I was a little nervous and a little distressed, what a good girl you said, I just let the inhumane test become a psychological hazard - usually live alone in this huge empty city and watch your own death video, which is what ordinary people can do?

"I don't usually watch this, this is what His Majesty wants to see, I usually watch the central ten sets, and those jokes are funny." Gaia replied earnestly, and I was speechless.

With Gaia's illustrated explanations, Sandora and I had already figured out what the test was all about, and after removing the parts I didn't understand...... Okay,There's nothing left.,Anyway, I only know one thing.,They want to transform the spirit hún of the Xiling apostle.,Make their spirit hún more immortal.,But this transformation ultimately failed.,The mutated spirit hún didn't strengthen at all.,Instead, it was inexplicably erased a certain "concept".,It becomes incompatible with any kind of body.,If you compare it with an example.,It's like you want to optimize your own mother.,As a result, you got off when you optimized.,Niang's mechanical layer code jumped directly from binary to thirty-decimal system., But all the computers in the entire world are binary mechanical codes, so your mother has become a lonely ghost from now on, and can only turn into a wisp of residual memory in your head......

Gaia was like this, her spirit hún was transformed into a completely incomprehensible appearance, as if the binary system had programmed the thirty-decimal system, and from then on nothing that could be called a body could contain this spirit hún.

The only thing to be thankful for is that although the body is no longer compatible with the spirit hún, the technology of the Xiling Empire still did not let her die, and the scientists who almost let Pandora line up to shoot her finally found something similar to a translator, and transferred Gaia's spirit hún in the form of data on this home planet, most of her data is stored in the control center, and some incomprehensible concepts are integrated with the entire planet, which is now Gaia.

So the main question we are concerned about now is: Is this process reversible?

No one has forgotten the original purpose of our visit to Gaia, we are not here to observe the recording of LV, we plan to arrange for Shandora's old subordinates to borrow the corpse and return Hún.

But this idea was actually poured cold water when Gaia told her story just now, and as she explained the reason for the incompatibility of the spirit little by little, the cold water gradually transitioned to ice water, so to speak, when Sandora and I asked with the most extravagant hope whether this process was reversible, the two of us were actually similar to the winter swim in Heilongjiang: from the top of our heads to the feet.

Sure enough, just as I had already guessed, Gaia shook her head without hesitation: "Of course it's irreversible, otherwise I wouldn't be like this now." ”

I looked at Gaia's pale blue sè translucent phantry, and thought that it was difficult for her to even use quality projection because of the different base systems, and I thought: if this process is reversible, will this girl in front of her still be here as a movie all day long?

"That's the end of the road."

I drooped the corners of my mouth, shrugged my shoulders helplessly, and the other party lowered his head for a long time and was silent, and suddenly said faintly: "In this case, I am afraid that they will really not be able to accept it." ”

For the Apostle of Hilling, there is no more difficult situation to accept: from now on, he has become a section of information that can do nothing, expending an astonishing supply of energy every day to maintain his existence, and even a large group of leader bees who are responsible for maintaining themselves every day without doing anything, and living a real life of rice worm rice buckets.

Gaia was able to do her duty after losing her body because she was originally a Spiritual host, and what she had to do had nothing to do with combat, as long as she had a powerful enough auxiliary servo array, she could continue to do her old job, and what about the veterans of Shandora? They are all warriors, and the only thing they can do for tens of millions of years is to fight, and if you give them a server, they won't be able to study something that only the Xiling host understands. The race of the Apostle of Xiling is different from that of humans, their "origin" determines too many things, a newly created apostle is determined by the future racial horn, a soldier trained to the limit will not understand scientific research, a researcher who goes to the front line every day to fight a thousand years can not beat an officer, Pandora has only grown a centimeter taller after tens of millions of years, Sister Scorpion said that she would rather die than heat up her blade, Sicaro is the only wonder, in addition to fighting, he learned to read palmistry and resell pirated plates......

Thinking of this, I can only sigh with Sandora.

But - still the cute word, however, Gaia's sudden voice seems to give us some turnaround.

"Your Majesty, actually...... The L-15 Grand Overseer has already had a correspondence with me, and he has an idea for the future of the 100,000 vengeful veterans......"

(Guess what's wrong with the Avengers?) ）RO！。